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Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
Ordinance No. 142.
Published August 18th, 1881

AN ORDINANCE providing for four wards in the
city of Dodge City.
Be it ordained by the Mayor and Councilmen of
the city of Dodge City, Kansas:
SECTION /. That there be, and is hereby estab-
ignated and numbered as follows, to wit: That all
that part of the city OF Dodge City lying and being
south of the center of the main track of the
AtchisOn, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad shall be
and is hereby constituted the First ward of said
city.
Second, That all that part of the city of Dodge
City lying and being north of the center of the
main track of the AtchsOn, Topeka and Santa Fc
Railroad, and east of the center of First avenue
shall be and is hereby constituted the Second ward
of said city.
Third, That all that part of the city of Dodge
City lying and being north of the center of the
main track of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad and west of the center of First avenue
and east of the west line of the original boundary
of the city of Dodge City and east of the line
of Shinns addition and Fairview addition to the
city of Dodge City shall be and is hereby const-
tuted the third ward of said city.
Fourth, That all that part of the city of Dodge
City lying and being north of the center of the main
track of the Atchson, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail-
road and west of the line of the original boundary
line of Shinns and Fairview addition to the city
of Dodge City, shall be and is hereby constituted
the Fourth ward of said city.
SECTION ii. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after its publication once
in the Dodge City TIMES.
Passed the Council July Q. 1887.
Attest, GEO. f. JONES, City Clerk.
Approved July 9, 1887. l.. n. YORK,
Pres. Pro TEN.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
IMPORTANT TO FARMERS.

The Wellington Standard says: We
commend to careful consideration of all
our readers engaged in tilling the soil.
the following item, clipped from the lola
Register, one of our best weekly ex-
changes. In speaking of the difference
in crops in the same locality, and the al
legged reasons, therefore the editor of the
Register says:
In riding about the country it will be
noticed that one field is thrifty and has
never stopped growing day. while just
across the road on the same kind of land
the corn will be badly fired and show
great injury from the drouth Observ-
ing and intelligent farmers tell us that in
nearly every case this difference is due to
the manner of farming They say that
in every instant where the ground was
plOwed deep in the spring and Thoroughly
cultivated during the season, the corn
has withstood the drOuth without injury
On the contrary, when the ground was
just scratched and then indifferently cul-
tivated. he corn has suffered from the
drOuth. If these reasons are not true
Ones-and we have not heard them con-
tradicted-our agricultural readers ought
to profit by the statement of them.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

A couple of wooden stringers over .
culvert on prairie that is almost annu-
ally visited by running fires is the most
dangerous kind of a structure over which
10 take passengers at the rate of forty
miles an hour. All through the west
the rights of way owned by railroads are
overgrown with tall grass and weeds.
As these ripen and become dry in sum
mer they are set ON fire by passing en-
gines Topeka Capital.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
SPEAK TO THAT Ian.

/ Tell that man not to make fool OF
himself. He has come into town from
his homestead claim At wsyback and
wants to sell out for trifle and 60 east,
where his daddy lives. He says it's hot
and dry and his sod corn wont make
half . crop. and he's plum discouraged.
Reason with him little. Didn't he ex.
pect to see hot weather in August! Don't
he know it is a. hot and dry where he
came from as it is heres Why, he came
from Wisconsin, and the hickory nuts
and walnuts are all shriveled up and fai-
ling OF the trees. Hasn't he heard
his father tell about hard times and fail
ure Of crops. when he was young and
new in the country. Did he expect to
find every thing lovely every year in
Kansas, and that the typical goose would
always hang just as high as he could
wish? His wife,s friends live in Illinois
near Elgin, in one of the best dairy dis
tricts in the United States, but they are
having it 50 hot and dry there that they
they have no feed or water for their COWS
Where will they go to? 20 that is diff
fercnt thing altogether. They have lived
there for thirty or forty years and never
saw it 50 dry before and never expect to
see again, you say. Just 80, You take
it for granted that that country is all
right, because you or somebody else that
you know has lived there for forty years.
Well, do you think the good Lord made
80 beautiful . country as this is and made
it unfit to live in just because it happens
to be hot and dry here this year, the first
year you have known of itY
You took your claim in state of nature
broke the sod about two inches deep,
planted your corn six weeks later than it
should have been planted, and are dis
gusted because you are not going to get
a full crop Why, anybody but land
agent would have told you the chances
were all against you. In short. young
man. you had better think well of it be.
fore you throw up your hand. You have
got good start made for the next year,
and have learned many things that will
be useful to you.
Stick to your claim as Abraham did to
the angel he grappled with when he
said Il will not let thee 80 except thou
bless me. This whole great west from
the Alleghanies to the ROckiea has been
conquered by pioneers who have had
pluck and perseverance, who did not get
discouraged at trifles, but hung on till
they made their point. There were plen-
ty of others that came at the same time,
but got discouraged and went back.
What became of them? Did they ever
amount to anything anywhere!
Never give up. 1t is wiser and better,
Always to hope. than once to despair;
Fling OF the load Of doubts csnkering fetter,
And break the dark cloud OF tyranical care.
Never give mp, though the grape shot may
rattle,
Or the fall thunder cloud over you burst;
Stand like . rock, and the storm or the battle
Little shall harm you though doing their
worst.
C. e. Sentinel.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed bids will be received at the City Clerks
office until Wednesday, August 31st, for the con-
struction of stone curbing and guttering on the
following named streets on both sides of Chest
nut street from Railroad Avenue to Third Avenue:
on both sides of Second Avenue from Chestnut
street to Front street; both sides of First Ave
nue. from Chestnut street to Front street All bids
to state much per lineal foot for curbstone and
gutter, complete, according to the plans and spc-
cificatiOns file at the City Clerka Office
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

Kansas may be a little slow on the rain
question. She may defer it from day to
day as she did recently for three weeks,
but she can generally be relied on to bring
up all right at last, and to pour out her
reviving floods in copious showers just
in the nick of time
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

Abilene Gazette: The glory of Kan
sas is in her stayers-the fellows who
stick to the end, and who are not fright
ened off the roost by shadows which
are temporary and evcnescent.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

The Newton Republican says ''Sor-
ghum is the best all around forage crop
that a Kansas farmer can raise Old
and experienced farmers, however, say
that for cow and horse feed it is the most
dangerous fodder that can be used.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
PREDICTION.

Prof. Foster, of the Burlington Hawk
eye weather bureau. thinks we have
passed the drouth years and 1883 will af-
ford the usual amount of rainfall. He
says:
I'VE are satisfied that 1887 is the last
drouth year for several years to come.
We have had two years Of drouth as pre-
dicted by the writer, predictions based
upon the principles and data of PLANETARY
meteorology. Reasoning upon the same
basis of principles We reached the con-
clusiOn that next year. and four or five
succeeding years will be of the ordinary
character IA to humidity in the Missis-
sippi valley, and pretty generally
throughout the United States, but with
an increasing tendency to dryness in the
eastern states.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

Buffalo Bill. writing to an old friend in
Nebraska, says: Il still wear the same
sized hat and when make my pile am
coming back to meet all the old boys. If
you meet any of them tell them I amt
got the big head worth cent am
over here for dust. Lots of fellows
who go to Europe have not half as much
sense. SS ttts--a
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
KANSAS FRUIT.

A farmer near Newton by the name of
Betz sold three hundred bushels of ap-
Piles f-Om his orchard this season; at one
dollar per bushel.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
THE TAX LEVY.

Board of county commissioners met at
the office county clerk, Monday, August
1st, 1887, 1 80 p. m, for the purpose of
making the tax levy. Present full board.
On motion the following levies were
made:
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
GOOD CORN FRON THOR.
SOUGM CULTIVATION.

GOOD CORN FROM THOR.
/ OUCH CULTIVATION.
There win be sonle good crops of con-
in Western Kansas despite the dry
weather, hot winds and the chinch bugs.
There was an abundance of rain in West.
ern Kansas for the producing of good
corn crop generally, had not the hot winds
and their ally the chinch bugs caused
the burning up of many fields of corn.
But despite the ravages of corn fields by
the hot winds. there will be many good
fields producing fair crops of excellent
corn. The rains favored some local
tiles, it is true; but thorough cultivation
of corn in all instances is the key to the
successful growth.
We took pains some days last week to
make inquiries of farmers in different
parts of the country, and found that there
will be fine yields of corn in many places.
We inquired of Judge Burns, who lives
in the southeast part of the county. He
and his neighbors have good stands of
corn. Rev. Mr.. Courier, of Ford, in
forms us that there are many good fields
of corn in his neighborhood The good
reports of corn crops come from Crooked
Creek Mr.. Nielman, who lives at Lone
Lake, says there are good prospects Of
corn in that neighborhood. In the sand
hills south of Cimarron there are many
fine fields of corn which have withstOOd
hot winds. Rev. Mr.. Wright has a
splendid prospect for corn. This is true
of the entire sand hill country. People
who come up from MOntezuma, Hess and
other points south, all say there are
many fields of good corn.
And invariably, where we made the in
quiry we found that thorough plowing
of the ground was the means that pro-
duced the good results. w. A. Elliott,
seven miles west of Dodge City, has
good stand of corn. The plOw did it. II.
w. Rodgers, of Wilburn township. has
good corn. He says the plow did it.
On our travels lately we noticed good
fields of corn; and upon inquiry we found
that the plow was the constant cOmpan-
ion of the healthy corn field.
Of course, there are many poor fields
of corn in Western Kansas, and we will
not attribute all of these failures to a
lack of cultivation of the soil New
ground will sometimes not produce good
corn in dry weather. But it is an estab-
lished fact, the world over, that the thor
ough cultivation of the soil will cause
the healthy growth of vegetation in
drouthy weather 1t is no less a fact in
Western Kansas. And here the cOndi-
tons are favorable for good crops in the
worst of dry weather. Our soil is of
sandy porous nature. to great depth.
and constant turning over produces evap.
Grafton by capillary action. Fed by this
system of sub irrigation crops will grow
in spite of hot winds and bugs.
There was an abundance of rain all
over western Kansas until within the
last month, and had not the hot
winds of the parahed dis
tricts of Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and
other states, swept over us we should
have had corn to supply the drouthy dis
tricts, even with poor cultivation and the
slip shod manner of farming pursued by
many well meaning men.
Speed the plow. EfAFY q 81
49, 80
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

A fact from George Rohrer's pen:
kansas has more brave, energetic. en-
terprising and indomitable men to the
square inch than any other state in the
union. and at the same time it has lar
ger proportion of crOakers than any other
state-fellows who are always on the
ragged edge if it don't rain every other
day, and who, because the corn crop
does not pan out seventy-five bushels to
thssscre every year, say. It's failure"
Now here's enthusiasm for you from
the Great Bend Graphic: I'VE ,heani !
young man ask last night what was the
meaning IF 'Ad astra per aspera, on the
Kansas state seal. 1t means, in the plain
est Of English, Kansas is bound to get on
top Of the pile with both feet, and is GO
ing to, send down the halls of futurity
such a. tattling record of push. enter.
prise, vim and perseverance as will
awaken in the echoes of the years to
come the loudest praises in the gift of en-
lightened man. 1t means that Kansas
to which a hundred thousand eyes are
turned, and hundred thousand ears are
opened, is bound to march Through diff
ficnltics to the Skies" and that Kansas
people will stick to her through thick and
thin. through wet and dry and hot and
cold, and in the after years, when not .
wave Of trouble rolls across her peaceful
prairies, will tell to their children the
true meaning of the motto which has
been veri6ed in wOrds.''
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
On motion the following special levies
REGISTRATION NOTICE.

The Poll Books for the registration of voters in
the Fourth Ward of the city Of Dodge City, Kan
eas, will be closed August 10th, 1887, at o'clock,
P. NJ. GEO. +. JONES,
Avg. 18th, 1887. City Clerk.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

From remarks overheard, and from
conversation with farmers from different
paris Of the country. we learn that the
corn crop is not % Bad as has been re-
ported. The corn is very streaky. plain
" showing the patches Of ground that
WIN endure continued drouth. -Emporia
Republican.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

~ The DODGE CITY TINES has large ard
growing circulation in Ford and adjoining coun-
ties, and is valuable advertising medium. IA
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

1niia s wheat crop is nine bushels an
acre Dakota can heat that by 100 per
cent The trouble is that the India crop
is raised lJy persons who live on one and
half cents worth of rice day, while
the Dakota harvest hand wants three
big square meals Yet there is still doubt
if Dakota can not successfully compete
with India.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

The Indicted Chicago boodlers are busy
just now trying to prove their previous
good character.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

The Santa Fc officials are now expert
menting with fair show of success, up
on q new apparatus for heating passen-
ger coaches. which. when completed,
will go FAR toward lessening the horrors
Of railroad wrecks. This new invention
above referred to, docs away. with the
stoves and their attendant dangers, the
heat all coming direct from the engine,
thence into the hot air pipes the same ~
now used. We hope this much needed
invention may prove . success. The
Baker heaters are good thing, generally
speaking. but in case OF wreck they
are bsd to have around In well regnla-
ted passenger coach.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18
ADVERTISING RATES.

REGULAR ADVERTISEMENTS one dollar per inch
space per month.
LOCAL NOTICES, ten cents per line for the first
insertion and five cents per line for each subee-
Quent insertion.
Dodge City times., 1887-08-18

Refunding current tax bond interest rs Mills.
Court hause and iail add L.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

cept any business excuse. The object
of this law has been to secure business
men to arbitrate their business differ
enceS, and the result is that grand and
petit jurieS have been greatly improved
in character and much more satisfactory
results have been obtained than under
the old plan.
Litigation in this country has in
creased in proportion with the increase
in population, and where only few
years ago two judges were able: with
but little difficulty, to dispose of the
business before the district court and
have considerable leisure time, it now
requires the constant attention of four
judges, and even then they are so con-
stantly engaged in the actual trial of
the cases that it is with the greatest
difficulty that they find time to consider
and decide the important equity cases
which are submitted to them for decis-
ion. Litigants who are sometimes given
to grumbling because their cases are not
Immediately decided little know how
little time district judge has outside of
the hours he is necessarily engaged in
the actual trial of cases, and in most
cases these decisions require minute
research of authorities and the inyeSti-
CATION Of hundreds of pages of testimony
taken during the trial, upon which his
memory must necessarily be refreshed.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23

and club each other with stuffed clubs.
never fail to catch on, though their act
is as old as the presence of negro bust
ness on the stage. They have songs,
too, all alike. They have just come
up from ''de ole plantation" and they're
not going to stay long, for they have to
get right back to s'dear old maSsa'' aud
de "fiels O. yellow corn," and watermel-
ons, and magnOliaS. and hoe cake, and
all that, but they will stay just little
while to sing and dance. They may.
perhaps. sing an alleged religious song,
but if they do it's sure to he as vilely
rendered as it is sure to be ancient.
They guy" each other in the most vul-
gar negro dialect. and then all of sud-
den they speak in moderately good Eng
lish, and not seldom they branch off in
German and Irish dialect. What there
is funny in it, all but its supreme bad
ness, no one can tell when the matter is
discussed outside, but in the theater..it
seems to be all right, and very enjoy
able, if man has that number of beers
aboard which makes him feel friendly
with the world.
may be mentioned that of the negro
strolling in park and meeting a fair
white maiden unexpectedly. They have
never met before. yet she receives him
with the most lavish demonstrations of
pleasure. He talks to her and they fall
in love right there, whereupon he an
achronlStically requests that she sing
that old song they used to sing, 'sWhen
they were little boys and girls''together,
before cruel fate had Sundered them.
And they sing about happiness in the
past and in Hthe future, and dance off
together, kissing their hands to the au-
dience.
The afterpiece winds up the show,
but no lover of the variety stage stays
for that, because it merely serves to
bring out all those who have appeared
during the evening, and there is an un-
written law of the stage, that an after
piece shall be as excruciatingly bad as
it is possible to make it.
Year after year the things herein de-
scaibed hold the boards. Age may
wither and custom stale all things else.
but the chestnut of the variety stage
threatens to hold on forever.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
A PSALM OF WORK.

Life was not made for idle longings,
For useless tears and vain regrets
We are made for better things-to work, en-
dure
man is not a man who stands aside
And lets another fill his place;
Each has mission-each was born O place
to fill
Each nand was made some work to do;
Work is the secret of all happiness,
idlaness the pass-road to regret.
our hearts are only peaceful
When 0ur hands are at their work
Are we happy when we know
I tai for the phantom rest, the fancied ease,
esl. .;ht Il duty or neglect plang
Wort and hc huppy-idle and repine;
y III compensation of a gracious God
i iat honest work should have rich re-
ward.
= mans less noble for his daily work;
nrk well done, the deed stands forth
r,fy the doer
Louisville Courier-J ournal
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
CONTRACT WQRK.
Paving Se.1y Avenue.

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works.
CITY OF ST.PAUL. Mimi, Oct. I9, 1887. !
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board OF Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul. Min
nesota. at their Office in said city. until
IL m. on the 31st day of October, A. ID.
1887. for the paving of Selby avenue
from st. Adams street to Summit
avenue, Except between the rails of the
cable line and between the tracks and
for one foot each side of the outside rails
of said tracks, in said city, with cedar
blocks and curb with granite. including
the necessary sewer connections. ac-
cording to plans and specifications on
file in tho office of said Board.
A bondSEsith at least two (2) sureties
in a sum of at least twenty (2O) per cent.
of the gross amount bid must accom-
pany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
r. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: W. F. ERWIN,
295-5o5 Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
MN7RAC7 WORK.
Grading eotzlan Street

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
CITY OF ST. PAUL, Mimi, Oct.1 2,1SS7.
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the city of st. Paul, Min
nesota. at their office in said city. until
IL m. on the oath day of October, AID.
1887, for grading GotZian street from
Margaret street southerly to Conway
street in said city, according to plans
and specifications on file in the office of
said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties
in sum of at least twenty (20) per cent.
of the gross amount bid must accom-
pany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
r. L. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. F. ERWIN,
2S7-297 Clerk Board of Public Works.
St. Paul daily globe., 1887-10-23
CONTRACT WORK.
Grading Alley and Park:

OFFICE BOARD OF PUBLIC Works, J
CITY OF ST.. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 21, 1887.
Sealed bids will be received by the
Board of Public Works in and for the
corporation of the City of st. Paul, Min
nesota, at their office in said city, until
IL m. on the 1st day of November. A. d.
1887, for the grading of the alley and
park on the north side of lot 8, Crocus
Hills. Third Encouragement. st. Paul.
from Dale street formally Fairmount
Place. to Goodrich avenue, in said city,
according to plans and specifications on
file in the office of said Board.
A bond with at least two (2) sureties
in sum of at least twenty (20) per cent.
of the gross amount bid must accom-
pany each bid.
The said Board reserves the right to
reject any or all bids.
Il. l.. GORMAN, President.
Official: w. f. ERWIN.
295-505 Clerk Board of Public Works.